On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings from India to all
First of all, I would like to thank the community for the effort it
puts in and users like us get the benefit. I started using linux about
5 years ago and today I personally use Fedora and all other six users
in my SME company use Centos. And, I am proud to say that today we
only a single Windows installation in our small office (for ISP
troubleshooting, even though most of the use is Desktop.
However, I am in a fix now. I need to buy a high end laptop, (4 GB
RAM, 200 GB HDD, 17" Screen, Touchpad, Integrated Webcam and Full
Multimedia, so that the system can double as a Personal Entertainment
Device High End Audio/Video on long trips). I will need to run Centos
& Windows virtualized with Xen or some other hypervisor, for my some
of my office applications
I have browsed lots of sites & mailing lists, even some linux
certified sellers, but all seem to show either outdated hardware or
low multimedia.
I would like to know of such a Laptop which has linux drivers for all
its hardware, even if scattered on the net and someone is using such a
system successfully for similar applications. I could perhaps
outsource the driver compilation & installation to someone remotely,
as I do not know much about compiling & troubleshooting Hardware
problems.
My Windows usage is rare & for only a couple of programs for Equity &
Commodity Trade Charting and works in hypervisor, though I have not
tested it yet.
I do not now want to revert to Windows for other applications like
Multimedia, because I have been quite happy with Fedora Multimedia on
my Desktop. Only issue is choosing the right hardware for which
drivers are available & outsourcing to someone to build driver rpms
for me & others for that particular laptop. After that, at least one
high end model will be available for other people like myself.
Hope the Fedora Gurus will give some guidance about selecting such a
laptop for which full hardware support can be built in the
community....I will gladly pay someone reasonable amount to do it for
me and build it into the Fedora code.
I'd say get a Dell, everything worked on the F8 install I did but they
have that stupid dell media direct button which will hose your install
in seconds.....
Max